In Sitecore 7.1 the new indexes are very powerful and allow you to do stuff easily that in Sitecore 6 took quite an effort. An example of that is if you want to tag items and show lists of the items based on the tagging. This can be achieved with a computed index field and some good old Sitecore work. So lets look at the first part of the task and add a tag to the index at hand. Continue reading How to create a Computed index field→

Last week when I was setting up workflows for my customer I made a mistake that had some interesting side effects that were not all that predictable. When i added the workflow to the standard values of the template I was in a bit of a rush (that is my story and I am sticking to it) and I added the workflow to the field called “Workflow” to the standard values of the template. Just to really make sure that it would be in the right workflow state upon creating an item based on the template I added the first state to the field “State” as well. Continue reading Workflow on standard values mistake→

The aliases provided by Sitecore provide the same basic functionality, but they will not get you very far if you want to be a bit more advanced and allow the administrators to select the type of redirect or expand the redirect functionality in some other way.

The media upload functionality in Sitecore only handles direct file upload while you sometimes would like to add a media item from the Internet. There are for example Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems that use URL cut and pasting as a means of integration.

The drawbacks of this method of integration is that the web site will depend on the media being available from the DAM system which it may not always be. If for example the DAM is down a single point of failure is introduced in the web site. If the editors remove an image from the DAM system they will have no way of knowing that an image actually is used in a web site. I personally do not think that URL cutting and pasting is a good way of integrating a DAM system, but sometimes you have to deal with the systems already out there. Continue reading A very simple media upload via URL→

I often find myself switching between the core database, the master database and the web database in Sitecore. Each switch makes the content editor reload and I have to find my way back through the content tree to where I was before I need to switch databases.